The Forager’s Toolkit- Everything You’ll Need on a Foraging Expedition

I’ve gotten much more into foraging lately, attempting, if possible, to have at least one dish or more a day with a foraged ingredient or more. This means that I typically am foraging at least a few times a week now, and with the upsurge of my foraging, I’ve discovered, often a bit too late, […]

Maintaining Health Insurance in Tough Economic Times

Having a frugality blog, you may find it curious that I never talk about health insurance and health care whatsoever (other than alternative or home remedies, of course), specifically because health care is one of the biggest expenses the average American has, let alone someone not in the peak of health. To be honest, I’ve […]

Gluten Free Zucchini Bread Recipe- Refined Sugar Free

I am a pretty good cook, but one of my biggest culinary challenges is coming up with recipes for dessert that don’t contain refined sugar but still taste good. I’ve made many flops in the process, unfortunately, but this recipe is one of my successes, fortunately. This zucchini bread is gluten free, dairy free and […]

Homemade Pocketbook From Jean Skirt- Upcycled Craft Tutorial

My pocketbook desperately needs to be replaced. It was on its last legs a good while ago, and is far beyond that now. I’ve wanted to purchase a new bag already for a while, but the fact that nice pocketbooks are so overpriced made me push off the purchase more and more. But now, I […]

Hearth and Soul Blog Hop

Welcome back to yet another edition of the Hearth and Soul blog hop. This is where you get the chance each week to share your favorite food related posts with the other visitors to the hop, and you get to check out theirs as well. The Hearth and Soul Hop is about food that not […]

Budget Baby Wearing- Homemade Carriers, Extremely Frugal Baby Carriers

Anneliese in my purchased, not so frugal, but oh so good investment baby carrier. It’s a cross between a mei tai and a wrap, (like a mei tai, but instead of shoulder straps, there are shoulder panels,  made of fabric that stretches in just  one direction), is very comfortable, and versatile, not to mention pretty. My friend, […]

Mujaddara Recipe Version 2- Middle Eastern Rice and Lentils

There are some foods that I’ve been making a certain way for years, completely unaware that there is some similar type of recipe, with the same name and with similar basic ingredients, whose taste is radically different, sometimes its hard to understand why it’s called the same dish. Mujaddara is one of those dishes. My […]

Growing Celery For Free, Easily

As much as I would like to say that I’m a terrific gardener, I’m really not. Whenever I try to start plants from seeds, at least half the time, the seeds never sprout, or I kill the plant before it reaches the fruiting stage… And this makes me sad. Because I’d like to be able […]

Figuring Out The True Cost Of Fruit

I recently bought a watermelon. It weighed a good 25 pounds. That’s one heavy fruit! And because the watermelon wasn’t so cheap per pound, it ended up being quite an expensive fruit! On top of that, just how much of that watermelon didn’t get eaten because it was the peel? (Yes, I know the rind […]